This is the Disneyland I will always remember. It is the Disneyland of my childhood, when the world was fresh and new and full of promise. It was the days of ticket books, E-Ticket rides, great bands and stage acts and a simpler view of life only a child knows. Growing up in Southern California, I visited Disneyland regularly. No matter how bad real life was at home, it was always a happy time at Disneyland. It will always remain one of my fondest childhood memories. This video portrays exactly what I remember.

So amazing!!!! No phones, no social media, no half naked people, no tattoos. Love the footage

I loved those days in Disneyland when my parents took me nearly every weekend. I was 15 in 1968 and was born near Anaheim, CA. in 1953. Those were the days when Walt Disney could be seen walking in the Park. How lucky I am to remember the real good ole days!

Disneyland in 1968 sure looked better than today. Did the people really look that nice in 1968?

I experienced Disneyland in the 70's and loved every moment as a boy. I would love to go back in time for just one day and visit OLD Disneyland again!

This is the era of the park I love. When they developed the parking lot was the beginning of the end for the Disneyland I loved. Now over $100.00 admission. Game over.

At 19:50 you see British pop singer Lulu (To Sir With Love) performing on the Tomorrowland stage. It was 1968 and I was there that night!!!

I will always view Disneyland as a pinnacle of American excellence. No matter how bad things get in the world, to me, the original Disneyland has always symbolized classic American greatness. And I’m Canadian! ❤️

When Disneyland was not so expensive smh.

So glad people preferred the original 'Enchanted Tiki Room' over the one with Iago. That gives me some faith in humanity

Now this is the Disneyland that I remember. I'll keep this as my memory of Disneyland. It's amazing how all those who were there with me back then, are suddenly here with me again. If only... for moments.

I was born 6 months after this was filmed, and moved to Anaheim 7 years after this was filmed. Loved going to Disneyland 15 times a year for 8 years. Today, it's just too darn crowded.

I was 8 years old in 1968. I’ve been going to Disneyland since I was a few months old!!

I grew up watching the weekly Sunday Walt Disney Show and the original Mickey Mouse Club daily show during the mid-50's (I was 10yrs old in fifth grade). We kids all were hooked on them and indoctrinated by Disney's manner of showing us the plans and development of his concept of an "amusement" park never imagined/experienced before. There was so much pent-up interest and demand that us kids AND parents too, wanted to plan vacations there! Our family finally traveled from Wisconsin in 1967 (the only time) 12 years after it opened, (I was now 19). Even as a "grownup" teenager, I still was looking forward to seeing what the experience would be. I "got" it! Not the shabby "state fairesque" local annual event. EVERYTHING was permanent high-quality! Beautiful real buildings, lush landscaping, world class "rides", actual restaurants and souvenir stores, one could "eat" off the streets, no gum wads/wrappers, cigarette butts, trash of any kind. We loved it! My wife and I chose to go to have our honeymoon in Walt Disney World in 1993 and visited a couple of times with our two children in mid-2000's. Good memories!

I watched the Mickey Mouse club on our first tv in 1955. Wonderstruck at what I saw. Never dreaming I would make it from small town Iowa to see it. After coming home from Viet Nam they had a ticket program for returning vets. For $1.00 you got a $10.00 ticket book that got you in and ten rides. Myself and my wife went there many times in 1967. Wonderful memories. My parents and her parents came to visit and enjoyed going too. Of course they had to go full price!

They may have changed Disneyland but they cant change our memories those will always be with us

Miss My Mom and Dad

now in late 2021 Disney land had ''lost it'' as my 14 year old son & daughter just said to me dad theirs no reason what so ever to go back to Disneyland and what a shame they cant have the same feeling the way we had when we where young but now the corporate side of Disney changed IT forever.

bring back the People Mover and the Skyway this Park is busy all the time they need all these extra rides to calm the crowds

An exciting time for Disneyland. To make it complete would be to attend late summer of 1969. For The Haunted Mansion.

So peaceful. No fighting or stealing. What an amazing time!

I could never forget the experiences I had at Disneyland. My mother went to work there on the first day to park opened in 1955. I believe it was July 7th? Anyway, on my 8th birthday Walt Disney himself gave me a personal tour of the park including a ride on the Mark Twain riverboat. He let me steer it, although at that age I couldn't even see out of the wheelhouse much less over that enormous wheel, but it was probably the best birthday ever. I rode to work with my mother everyday and had the run of the park while my two younger brothers stayed with the babysitter. So basically, Disneyland was my babysitter all the way up until age of 9 when we moved away because my parents separated. Walt Disney gave me a souvenir Mickey mouse pocket watch that he signed on the back, but my mom put it in her safety deposit box, but later denied having any memory of it! She was like that unfortunately, only interested in money and that was not the only thing she stole from me!

Late 60s Disneyland was the most comfy

this is the disneyland of my childhood. the tomorrowland shown here was only a year old. it was the best tomorrowland. it came at a time when our country was involved in the space race,and a "great big beautiful tomorrow" seemed possible. now it should be called promotionland. it's one part of the park that fails to keep walt's dream alive. i do love all the aerial shots of the park. it's fun to think i could have been down there having a tuna sandwich on capt. hook's pirate ship or riding the peoplemover. both treasured memories.

It was such a luxury to be completely satisfied with one park. No "let's go to the other park, now" That's because there was/IS so much in this single park.

promotional films like this remind me of going to disneyland as a kid in the 60s/70s. i was so exhausted by the end of the day. i got what i would call aching "disneyland feet". it was a great feeling!

I used to go to Disney land every week. Those were the days my grandfather, Dad,Uncle helped build Disney and Even got to know Michael Jackson. I was so lucky to have gone so often and got to see Disney Change over the years. Disneyland is the greatest Place on earth in my eyes and will always love Disneyland till the day I die 😍

This is what Disney Channel should be!

We went when I was a kid the summer of 1967. It was truly a spectacular visit. I still have my ticket book for attractions we didn’t have time to see, and supposedly are good for a lifetime. Bet they wouldn’t honor them lol

I'm 33 and it brought back childhood memories of when it wasn't as crowded and much more fun to be there.

I wish I had a time machine and go to the pre 1967 Tomorrowland

I love watching things like this i rember going when i was little i had so much fun but now its just a dream to want to go

This is a great flashback of the magic kingdom! Yes the park has gotten a little out of hand. But our memories of the better days are fresh in our minds!

I can remember when the park opened in 1955 a ticket was only $1 for all the rides and parking was free. That has changed drastically over the years and I believe now it cost well over $100 per person per day and parking is no longer free either. I haven't been there in decades, but my fond memories will last forever

At 7:25, I remember how the Jungle Cruise narration was pretty much a serious matter as a kid. I went back in the early 90s and the narrator was completely clowning the ride and everyone in the boat was just looking at each other cringing like, Oh Man, this guy has either snapped or is getting ready to quit. Soon after we realized that was the new wave of Jungle Cruise narration. Some drivers are actually very funny.

What a wonderful trip down Memory Lane - thank you for this beautiful footage!

I miss all the live music that Disneyland had. When I was really young I was surprised that we ended up so high at the end of Alice's Adventures. After all, we started out by going down!

I remember the first time I went to DISNEY LAND 1971 OR 1972 I ether 5 or 6 year's old WITH MY COUSIN'S MY FAVORITE ONE WAS THE BOBSLED RIDE.. TODAY IS VERY POPULAR THE LINE GOES ALL THE WAY AROUND. .

The most fabulous place to visit! Especially in the early days - like in 1968 when I was only 6 years old. Thank you for uploading this great video!

wish they bring back the people mover

Thank god for Walt Disney!

Better than today's disneyland!!

I loved Tom Sawyer island !! Could run around exploring caves and the big Fort Wilderness ! Treehouse !! 🎉the best !! ❤

What a great look into what Disneyland was like in the 60’s. I went heavily in the 80’s and 90’s. It wasn’t too far off, but definitely a lot of additions like People Mover, America Sings, Indiana Jones, Splash Mountain.

Awesome! My first time to Disneyland was one year after this was filmed! I was five!

Always hated running out of those E tickets🤣

I was 9 years old ... yeah, I remember DL like this :-)

Who didn't love that stage rising up from underground??

I was working for Hughes Aircraft in Fullerton in 1968. I remember Hughes Aircraft Night at Disneyland.

I remember when I first found out we were going to Disneyland......at that time you had a book of colored tickets...different types of attractions took a different color. I spent hours and hours going through that book deciding what things were a must and others we could pass on. We were only there for 1 day. 😢

This is the first year I visited - thanks for posting.

I wish he was still around.. It has become greed world they could care less about people having fun it's all about the dollar bill now...

I want to get into my Tardis Way back machine and go back in time to Disneyland 1967 and have fun at Disneyland! Great video of Disneyland history all though the Matterhorn was not there until 1959 and not at the beginning in 1955 like they implied at the start of the video! This go's in my favorites, Thanx!

A little jingoism here. The ship "Columbia" was not commissioned by President Washington. It was a private ship, privately built, and it was never commissioned into the US Navy. When it circumnavigated the globe it did so as part of a private venture.

This was Disneyland during my younger years

Can't stop watching this... Wonderful footage

I was there in 1968 just fives years old.

used to go a lot during this time. we lived in anaheim and could watch the fireworks each night. it wasn't a happy time in our family, so going to the park all the time are the only enjoyable memories i really have as a kid. the park was so awesome at this time. just after the tomorrowland makeover and the pirates and haunted mansion additions. damn, do they still do the matterhorn climb every day? i used to love to watch that

I love it at Disneyland, I live in Palmdale & go down there often as it's only about a 90 minute drive if you leave early enough before the freeways pack up... I wish I could just live there...

I remember the tickets for $15.00 and admission was only $100 and parking was free. The tram took you almost to your car.

They should've left Tomorrowland alone. It looked more futuristic then than it does today.

Wish I had a time machine! My first visit was in '93, much talked abouthere was already gone.

I was at Lulu's show from this film! A couple of seconds shown near the end. At the Tomorrowland stage!

Thank you so much for sharing this. This is the Disneyland of my first childhood visit...wow.

The Pirate is the voice of Paul Frees, but I just realized how much he sounds like the crab in Mr. Limpet...which of course is Paul Frees.

I remember seeing this right after it opened. We were all so amazed that we went through it several times!

That was the summer in 1968 that I visited Disneyland for the first time.

Anyone else looking for themself in the footage?

Back when Disneyland was fun.

Thanks so much for downloading this. I totally enjoyed this!

so awesome... brought back alot of memories

1969 was my first visit to Disneyland, a 7 years old child afraid of thw skeletons at Pirates of the Caribbean and wondering how inside Ticky Romm was a storm and outside plenty of sunshine. Now, after 16 or mire visits (I am from Mexico) I remember the old days buy I enjoy mire today visiting with my family and grandchildren, one of them a 4 years girl who reassure me that the skeletons at Pirates will not board the canoe.

Oh, to be in the eighth grade and visit Disneyland again!

I have never visited but can just Imagine how Splendorous it must be!!

We had a recording of this on VHS my parents taped off the old school Disney Channel. I remember watching it over and over before I went for the first time. Half the stuff depicted in it was long gone of course but I didn’t care.

Seems like we all agree on how better Disneyland was then. We have added state of art rides, shows, eatery's..etc. And still find it wanting compared to this. Why is that you think? *Innocence* would be my first bet. "What is the essence of a thing?", Marcus Aurelius.

This is marvelous! Thank you!

Missed disneyland

I seem to remember when Disneyland used to be closed on Monday and Tuesday, now it is opened every day

Perhaps I missed something in the description, but the title says this is from 1968, when our dear Walt passed in 1966. Still a great video!

This was made, the year Yellow Submarine was released!

Simpler times.

The year I was born, I was there as a baby and a toddler.

It was incredible in those days, not overpriced with two-hour lines.

Funny, but if you look at the people there are NO fat people. Go there today and they are everywhere. Good representation of America in 2015........Mmmmm

I can't afford to go now. I'm sure most of the amusements back in 1968 all gone and it's around $5 a head! With what's going on now these days it made me cry... .

I remember people back then complaining that "Disneyland is too crowded" -- hahaha

Opening music is the same music from the start of the EPCOT 1966 promotional film.

Man I wish that Hawaiian Tiki room was still there. It seemed trippy.

so cute how the baby dances

new matterhorn cars suck unless your sitting in the front

The narrator sounds like Peter Graves.

the color in this really held up well

I want to go to Disneyland

They need to put this on dvd

Yea🎉 Primeval land of the dinosaurs 🦕!! ❤

Is it me or were people on average thinner back then?

Woo!

This special was actually from 1969.

1967-69 was Disneyland at its peak and best with the Haunted Mansion finally finished and opened in 69.